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They Don’t Report. You Don’t Have to Decide.
“DESPITE the major environmental disaster unfolding in the Gulf and the attempted terror attack on New York’s Times Square, President Obama spent his Saturday night laughing it up at the White House Correspondents Dinner,” griped Sean Hannity of F...
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Root Canal Politics
London
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Tell-All Generation Learns to Keep Things Offline
Members of the under 30 tell-all generation are rethinking what it means to live out loud.
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Celebrate: Save a Mother
Happy Mother’s Day! And let me be clear: I’m in favor of flowers, lavish brunches, and every other token of gratitude for mothers and other goddesses.
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What Every Girl Should Know
A thousand years ago, popular birth control methods in the Western world included spitting into the mouth of a frog, eating bees and wearing the testicles of a weasel. In Córdoba, Spain, which was supposed to be on the scientific cutting edge, wom...
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My Mother, Her Secrets
San Francisco
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They Don’t Report. You Don’t Have to Decide.
The metamorphasis of the White House Correspondents Dinner into popular entertainment is of a piece with what has occurred in American politics in general. Substance and policy no longer matter. Truth and accountability are not a part of political reporting. Politicians can say whatever they want, they will never be consistently called to account. Surface is all we are fed by the media. I thought, with Obama, this might change. Sadly, I was wrong. His intellect strikes me now as dangerous. He can intimidatingly talk his way out of anything with extremely seductive, articulate hypocrisy. For example, he bemoans the breakdown of democracy that uninformed, extreme positions on the right and left facilitate. He chastises the media for not being up on the major issues of the day, allowing "powerful interests and their lobbyists" to control the debate and, ultimately, policy. He says these things while his own administration, following backdoor meetings, is doing the bidding of special interests right and left, in so doing, betraying his base and undermining democracy.
Gen X Has a Midlife Crisis
How can a generation whose cultural trademark is a refusal to grow up have a midlife crisis? Sam Lipsyte’s novel “The Ask” and the films “Hot Tub Time Machine” and “Greenberg” ponder this predicament.
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Greek Debt Woes Ripple Outward, From Asia to U.S.
The fear that began in Athens, raced through Europe and finally shook the stock market in the U.S. is now affecting the broader global economy.
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10 Days In a Carry-On
With more airlines charging for checked baggage, Ms. Poole’s tips save both space and money — and time, if you include the benefit of skipping the wait at the luggage carousel.
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Test Flights Into the Google Cloud
Some Google fans are turning undistilled vats of source code into early working versions of the company’s planned Chrome Operating System.
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Date With a Neanderthal
Neanderthals mated with some modern humans after all and left their imprint in the human genome, a team of biologists has reported in the first detailed analysis of the Neanderthal genetic sequence. — The Times, May 6
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The Moral Life of Babies
Can they really tell right from wrong? What researchers are cooing about.
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Fine Dining Where Strollers Don’t Invite Sneers
Our 9 month old nephew accompanied us for lunch at Carmine's on 91st and Broadway. Beginning with the hostess, our waiter and everyone in between he was extremely well received. I need to add that he is also very well behaved, but the staff did not know this before hand.
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The Jewish Question: British Anti-Semitism
Anthony Julius’s fiercely relevant book on British anti-Semitism is particularly strong on Shylock, Fagin and the whole cavalcade of Jew-hatred in English literature.
Gen X Has a Midlife Crisis
How can a generation whose cultural trademark is a refusal to grow up have a midlife crisis? Sam Lipsyte’s novel “The Ask” and the films “Hot Tub Time Machine” and “Greenberg” ponder this predicament.
-
Greek Debt Woes Ripple Outward, From Asia to U.S.
The fear that began in Athens, raced through Europe and finally shook the stock market in the U.S. is now affecting the broader global economy.
-
10 Days In a Carry-On
With more airlines charging for checked baggage, Ms. Poole’s tips save both space and money — and time, if you include the benefit of skipping the wait at the luggage carousel.
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Test Flights Into the Google Cloud
Some Google fans are turning undistilled vats of source code into early working versions of the company’s planned Chrome Operating System.
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Date With a Neanderthal
Neanderthals mated with some modern humans after all and left their imprint in the human genome, a team of biologists has reported in the first detailed analysis of the Neanderthal genetic sequence. — The Times, May 6
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The Moral Life of Babies
Can they really tell right from wrong? What researchers are cooing about.
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Fine Dining Where Strollers Don’t Invite Sneers
Our 9 month old nephew accompanied us for lunch at Carmine's on 91st and Broadway. Beginning with the hostess, our waiter and everyone in between he was extremely well received. I need to add that he is also very well behaved, but the staff did not know this before hand.
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The Jewish Question: British Anti-Semitism
Anthony Julius’s fiercely relevant book on British anti-Semitism is particularly strong on Shylock, Fagin and the whole cavalcade of Jew-hatred in English literature.
Monday, May 10, 2010
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